Chicken Bacon Swiss Braid

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon onion, chopped
• 10 ounces cooked chicken breasts, chopped
• 8 slices bacon, crisply cooked and chopped
• 1 cup swiss cheese, shredded
• 2 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
• 1 egg , lightly beaten

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 use 2 quart bowl, mix all ingredients well except for egg and crescent rolls; stir by hand.
• 3 roll out crescent rolls onto cookie baking sheet; do not separate.
• 4 seal seams.
• 5 using a pizza cutter, cut crescents into strips (starting on longest sides of cookie sheet, cut sides of dough into eight strips, about 1 1/2 inches wide and 3 inches long).
• 6 spread chicken mixture down the center of the crescents.
• 7 starting at one end, lift one strip of dough; twist one turn and lay across the top of the filling.
• 8 repeat, alternating strips of dough to form a braid.
• 9 fold the bottom edges of the dough up at the ends of braid.
• 10 brush top of dough with a lightly beaten egg , if desired.
• 11 bake 25-30 minutes or until golden brown; cover with foil when baking or crust becomes too brown.
• 12 (note: you can use 2 cans of the larger big and flaky crescent rolls (6 sections instead of eight) and make 2 smaller braids instead of one large braid (one can per braid) and it works fine. you use 1/2 of the chicken mixture for each braid).